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October 22, 2007, Monday

A memorial service for the jazz musician Benny Carter will be held on Monday night at 7:30 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Citicorp Center, Lexington Avenue and 54th Street. Mr. Carter died on July 12 at 95.

September 10, 2003, Wednesday

Benny Carter, whose combination of highly developed talents as composer, arranger, bandleader and soloist on a variety of instruments was unmatched in the jazz world, died Saturday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 95. A Versatile Master ...

July 14, 2003, Monday

Lionel Hampton, whose flamboyant mastery of the vibraphone made him one of the leading figures of the swing era, died yesterday morning at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 94. The cause was complications of old age and a recent...

September 1, 2002, Sunday

The Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies in Newark will mount an exhibition next month, with music, on its Web site about Benny Carter, the alto saxophonist, jazz composer and arranger. But it took a lot more than bytes and bits to send this...

January 23, 2000, Sunday

EVENTS Shahn's World Out of leading museums and private collections from Japan to the Vatican come more than 50 paintings assembled by the Jewish Museum in what is described as the first major museum exhibition in 22 years of the works of Ben...

August 26, 1997, Tuesday

BENNY CARTER, the alto saxophonist, composer and band leader, would like to slow the pace of his concerts and appearances a bit. After all, he turned 90 last Friday. But he said, ''They won't let me do that, and I guess I'm happy and flattered.'' ...

August 15, 1997, Friday

Johnny Cash settled into his chair at a Kennedy Center luncheon surrounded by other figures in the arts and leaders in Government and business, and agreed with the suggestion that he has been in far different circumstances. ''To say the least,''...

The first thing to notice about the alto saxophonist Benny Carter, who is 89, is that he sounds genuinely like a player of his time, the 1930's. He is a master of old-fashioned artifice, for whom the expression of ''natural'' voice isn't the main...